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Fla. mayor urges halt of Venezuela deportations

Associated Press, AP 6:42 p.m. EDT June 29, 2014

Luigi Boria, a Venezuelan-born millionaire entrepreneur and ordained evangelical minister who won election in last weeks run-off vote to become the city's second mayor of Doral, speaks in his office November 30, 2012 in Miami, Florida.(Photo: PAULA BUSTAMANTE/AFP/Getty Images)

DORAL, Fla. (AP) - The mayor of a Miami suburb is urging President Barack Obama to suspend deportations of Venezuelans with no criminal history.

Doral Mayor Luigi Boria presented three resolutions at the United States Conference of Mayors held in Dallas June 20 - 23.

In addition to halting deportations, one resolution calls for Venezuelan immigrants to receive temporary protected status.

Another resolution Boria introduced voiced support for demonstrators in Venezuela and the release of all political prisoners. A third resolution called on legislators to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

The United States Conference of Mayors represents cities with populations of 30,000 or more.

South Florida is home to the largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States.